Senior Software Engineer, On the Beach

• We’re looking for experienced engineers who are comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and enjoy solving new types of problems
• Strong full-stack engineering skills, with the ability to ship working software quickly
• Experience working with modern AI/ML tools or APIs (e.g. LLMs, OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock or similar)
• A track record of working in ambiguous problem spaces and driving ideas forward
• The ability to make pragmatic technical decisions with incomplete information
• Experience building prototypes, MVPs, or working in innovation focused environments
• A strong product mindset (you care about customer impact, not just technical elegance!)
• Confidence communicating ideas and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A collaborative approach and the ability to work effectively across team boundaries
• If you enjoy exploring new ideas, experimenting with emerging tools, and building solutions that can influence product direction, we’d love to hear from you!

Desirable

• As a Senior Software Engineer in the AI Discovery team, you’ll work at the frontier of applied AI building and testing new product experiences with real customers
• You’ll focus on rapid experimentation and intelligent prototyping, exploring areas such as:
• Conversational trip planning
• AI-powered personalisation and recommendations
• New search and discovery paradigms using LLMs
• Agent based and workflow-driven experiences
• This role is about learning fast and building the right things, not just building things right
• You’ll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, analysts and researchers to design experiments, validate ideas and identify which opportunities are worth scaling into full product capabilities
• Why This Role Is Different:
• You’ll work on AI-driven problems that reach real customers, not just internal demos, with the autonomy to explore ideas in a low-process, high-trust environment
• This is a role where you’ll help shape product direction as much as implementation, while influencing how AI is adopted across the organisation
• You’ll be part of a small, experienced team focused on solving meaningful problems and driving real impact
• Design and build lean, high-impact prototypes to test hypotheses with real customers
• Run multiple experiments each quarter using approaches like fake-door tests, rapid prototypes and beta releases
• Explore and apply modern AI capabilities, including LLMs, retrieval systems and recommendation techniques
• Work across the full stack: from backend services and APIs to frontend experiences
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to design experiments that maximise learning
• Iterate quickly based on qualitative and quantitative feedback
• Partner with existing product teams when experimenting in their domains
• Contribute to internal tooling, patterns and approaches that accelerate AI adoption across engineering
• Balance speed and pragmatism, knowing when to move fast and when to invest in robustness
• This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of AI, product, and customer experience, contributing to how a well-established travel platform continues to evolve with new technologies
• What Success Looks Like:
• Success in this role is defined by the impact you create and the speed at which we learn, rather than output alone
• You’ll run high-quality experiments that generate meaningful insights, identify promising opportunities early, and help shape their direction
• As ideas prove their value, you’ll play a key role in guiding them towards production while also helping to foster a broader culture of experimentation and AI adoption across engineering
• Our full time hours are 37.5 per week, but we don't have rigid working hours so you can find the working pattern that's right for you. We have core working hours between 10am - 4pm, so we can collaborate and enjoy the social side of work

• We’ll run a multiple stage interview process, one stage of which will be an in-person interview at our fabulous Aeroworks office in Manchester city centre
• We want to make sure everybody has the opportunity to perform at their best. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process please let the Talent Acquisition team know and they will be happy to assist